Sharp elbows in geosynchronous orbit for China and the U.S.

Sharp elbows in geosynchronous orbit for China and the U.S.

Special to CosmicTribune.com, May 2, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher In geosynchronous orbit (GEO) China and the United States are revealing “sharp elbows” or potential combat capabilities that reflect the very high priority both place on war-winning access to low Earth orbit (LEO) and GEO, and just as important, to deny such access to the […]

China’s evolving space station raises specter of manned combat operations

China’s evolving space station raises specter of manned combat operations

Special to CosmicTribune.com, May 9, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher China’s Tiangong space station continues to evolve, raising concerns that China’s dual-use civil/military People’s Liberation Army (PLA) controlled space program is covertly developing military capabilities for its space station. On Dec. 6, 2022, the Chinese publication “Spacecraft Engineering” noted that the Chinese space station could […]

Cold War on the moon: China’s new organization counters U.S. Artemis Accords

Cold War on the moon: China’s new organization counters U.S. Artemis Accords

Special to CosmicTribune.com, May 2, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher China is escalating its effort to bring a New Cold War divide to the moon by creating an organization with members, the International Lunar Research Station Cooperation Organization (ILRSCO), as part of the 2001 China-Russia International Lunar Research Station (ILRS). China’s goal is to trump […]

Water on the moon found to be locked in glass beads

Water on the moon found to be locked in glass beads

Special to CosmicTribune.com, March 28, 2023 Tiny spherical beads of silicate glass on the moon’s surface, formed when asteroids slammed into the moon and by ancient volcanic activity, contain water, claim researchers. A Chinese Chang’e 5 rover that spent two weeks on the moon in 2020 drilled into the lunar surface and returned 3.7 pounds […]

China’s space-launch base in Africa could facilitate nuclear strikes against U.S.

China’s space-launch base in Africa could facilitate nuclear strikes against U.S.

Special to CosmicTribune.com, January 25, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher China is making its first space power projection to Africa, building its first space-launch base in the strategically located nation of Djibouti, in a region close to the strategic Bab Al Mandeb Strait that compliments the People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) existing naval-air-army base in Djibouti. […]

South Korean lunar mission to search for minerals, ice and future landing sites

South Korean lunar mission to search for minerals, ice and future landing sites

Special to CosmicTribune.com, August 5, 2022 A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida on Aug. 4, 2022, with South Korea’s first Moon mission: the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter, called Danuri. Later missions will include an orbiter, lander, and rover. Danuri, from the Korean words dal and nurida, means “enjoy the Moon” and its […]

Micrometeroid puts a tiny dint in one of 18 mirror segments in James Webb Space Telescope

Micrometeroid puts a tiny dint in one of 18 mirror segments in James Webb Space Telescope

Special to CosmicTribune.com, June 9, 2022 NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope was struck by a larger than expected micrometeoroid in late May, slightly damaging one of the spacecraft’s 18 primary mirror segments. NASA said that the telescope is “still performing at a level that exceeds all mission requirements.” The telescope cost NASA nearly $10 billion […]

Why Elon Musk poses an existential threat to the Chinese Communist Party

Why Elon Musk poses an existential threat to the Chinese Communist Party

FPI / May 12, 2022 Geostrategy-Direct.com By Richard Fisher On May 5, China’s People Liberation Army Daily (PLAD), which runs the website China Military Online, published a detailed attack on Elon Musk’s growing Starlink constellation. This follows nearly a year of occasional protests after the now 2,200 satellite constellation threatened China’s new manned space station […]

Space station, Ukraine and Biden corruption: Collision shakes cosmic balance of power

Space station, Ukraine and Biden corruption: Collision shakes cosmic balance of power

Special to CosmicTribune.com FPI / April 6, 2022 On April 2 the director general of the Russian space corporation Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, a close ally of Vladimir Putin, continued to play hardball with the United States when he posted on Twitter his latest threat to end cooperation with the United States on the International Space […]

James Webb Space Telescope aligns its 18 hexagonal mirror segments

James Webb Space Telescope aligns its 18 hexagonal mirror segments

Special to CosmicTribune.com, March 23, 2022 2MASS J17554042+6551277 is the coordinate-based catalog designation of the star centered in this sharp field of view of the world’s largest space telescope which was launched on Dec. 25, 2021. The diffraction pattern is created by the 18 hexagonal mirror segments of the James Webb Space Telescope. After unfolding, […]

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